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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday called freshman GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) a “cancer for the Republican Party.” “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality,” McConnell said in a statement first shared with The Hill. “This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.” Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to McConnell.

In a speech yesterday in the French region of Périgueux, Nicolas Sarkozy continued his early Presidential campaign insisting that France required a new republic. Sarkozy's Sixth Republic would represent a clean break from the Fifth, and a clean break from Gaullism. Reiterating that his "clean break" would mean more for those who have less and that it would represent a change from the old ways of immobility and inertia, Sarkozy's speech was aimed at those who have attacked him in the last two weeks. He continued to assert that he would end the 35-hour working week, introduce positive discrimination, a...